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I've been raging on X but it's taken me a day to be able to sit down here on Hive and gather my thoughts.
Yesterday started for us just to the north of Tel Aviv with a rocket alarm at 06:31. Nobody in Israel had said anything about heightened tensions, in nearly all cases in the past I've lived through, these kinds of alarms were preceded by discussion and warnings.
Not this one. Saturday morning was not just the Sabbath but the morning of the night/day which ends the Sukkoth holiday. We would have been sleeping in.
When the alarm sounds my wife and I got up and woke our boys and we all went to our safe room. We have 90s. I had to move the 1cm thick steel plate across the window.
We waited in there for a few minutes after the alarm and heard a few distant Iron Dome interceptions.
The News
My wife turned on the Hebrew news on Channel 12 and they were playing pre-recorded programs with just a side bar showing rocket alarms all over the south. Nobody was saying anything because there was nobody in studio. It took them 20 mins to even get a presenter on air!
X
And as my wife watched I tried to sleep again because I'd only fallen asleep at 3am. I'm still jet lagged after HiveFest in Mexico. I think an hour later we got another alarm. More hiding, more explosions.
And then the news started to emerge that this wasn't just about rockets. This was so much worse.
I'm following a bunch of useful accounts on X and I can only suggest for more detail if you're interested you follow me there.
I got a huge amount of signal boost, for some reason after I posted this:
https://twitter.com/brianoflondon/status/1710538451479646466
- brianoflondon
Our local municipality is calling all armed civilians to come to a muster point in the area.
Day 3
It's the morning of Day 3. The death toll already (and it is going to keep rising) is probably the greatest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. This isn't an exaggeration. Never on a single day in any of the wars Israel fought, did so many of our citizens die.
I didn't manage to post yesterday and I'm going to post now. There's so much more to say but thank you so much to all of you who've dm'd or contacted me via any of the various channels.
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